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EMC Symmetrix Compression Ratio Summary

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Capacity Manager > Thin Provisioning Capacity & Utilization > EMC Symmetrix Compression Ratio Summary

View compression ratios and savings for VMAX All Flash Adaptive (AFA) storage resource pools (SRP). Evaluate storage group ratios to better understand how savings can be achieved.

Table: EMC Symmetrix Compression Ratio Summary

Column name

Description

Array Name

Name of the storage array. This name is derived from the Symmetrix ID.

SRP Name

Name of the Storage Resource Pool.

Last Updated

The date and time the EMC Symmetrix SRP (Storage Resource Pool) data was last updated in the Portal database.

Virtual Provisioning

Saved %

Percentage capacity saved due to thin provisioning.

Shared Ratio

Current ratio of logical storage (thick LUN capacity) to overall compressed capacity, due to dedup of thin provisioning.

Overall Ratio

Current ratio of logical storage (thick LUN capacity) to overall compressed capacity, due to thin provisioning.

Snapshot

Saved %

Percentage capacity saved due to snap (versus full copy).

Shared Ratio

Current ratio of logical storage (thick LUN capacity) to overall compressed capacity, due to dedup of snap.

Overall Ratio

Current ratio of logical storage (thick LUN capacity) to overall compressed capacity, due to snap.

Compression

VP Ratio

Current ratio of logical storage (thick LUN capacity) to overall compressed capacity due to thin provisioning.

Snapshot Ratio

Current ratio of logical storage (thick LUN capacity) to overall compressed capacity, due to snap.

Overall Ratio

Current ratio of logical storage (thick LUN capacity) to overall compressed capacity.

Storage Resource Pool (SRP)

Overall Ratio

Current ratio of logical storage (thick LUN capacity) to compression and dedup.

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